Failure to Exflapalate

Failure to “exflapalate “on an existing idea is in the world of the entrepreneur. Not so long ago a certain small time news personality and community activist laid claim to a Harlem delicacy. Fried chicken between two waffles covered with maple syrup. Or a reasonable substitute. A couple of fellas from this neck of the woods wanted to run the N.Y. Marathon. Getting up to New York early they had a hankering for fried chicken and barbeque. Oh yeah, they had heard that the place to get it is Harlem. They were going to prove it was so by eating, tasting and having a good time with some nice company they were sure that they would find.

It was culture shock. This place called Harlem was bristling with chicken and ribs joints in the cracks and spaces that would accommodate doing a great barbeque and fried chicken trade, feeding their brothers and sisters with extraordinary soul food and BBQ.  Sitting down they were confronted with a dish that is served and eaten at anytime but usually in the early morning hours. Fried chicken piled high on one side of a pair of waffles. Put the top on and pour hot syrup over it.  You can add some double smoked bacon of the top of it all and close it up and get ready to be in heaven and feel like a rebel. Biting into that smoked BBQ bacon  is what you want to do for the rest of your life. You can even substitute smoked Canadian bacon for no extra charge.

Why a waffle? Why not a flap jack piled high with fried chicken and turned over like an omelet. Or filled with  smoked barbeque doused in sweet BBQ sauce or just be a purist and have it just spiced with their seasoned secret rub.  Believe it or not it took off like a rocket with flames coming out the rear jets.  That is what happens when you exflapalate on an existing idea.